Triadic nexus

The Triadic nexus is a theory of nationalism advocated by Rogers Brubaker. He believed that there were three related concepts in nationalism: a nationalizing state, an external national homeland, and national minorities. For example, during the 1930s, Poland was a nationalizing state, attempting to assimilate Belarusians and Ukrainians while holding dissimilationist views towards the German and Jewish minorities of the country. The German national homeland, the Weimar Republic (and later Nazi Germany) attempted to encourage Volksdeutsche (the national minority) to remain in Poland, yet retain their German-ness, as this would allow for Germany to pursue a policy of irridentism. German cultural organizations attempted to preserve this German-ness through various methods, including schools and funding. During the 1880s, the German School Association (Association from Germandom Abroad after 1908) sought to sustain German schools outside the Reich and preserve the Germans for Germandom, and the Pan-German League advanced political demands to consolidate the Germans of Europe into Grossdeutschland.